"Heroes for Hire" #6 Review

This week saw the release of the sixth issue of “Heroes for Hire”, written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning with pencils by Brad Walker. Following up on the Puppet Master storyline that kicked off the series, the audience sees the aftermath of the villain’s influence on Misty Knight and the rest of the Heroes for Hire operation. The progression of the story from the first arc to the second is very fluid and feels appropriately natural.

There were a few problems that cropped up while reading the book however. The cover of the issue would have you believe that Spider-Man is being targeted by the group yet the conflict only amounts to small quibbles with Paladin. This makes for some emotional struggle for the mercenary but also seems like a waste for some really great scraps between heroes, both action-oriented and philosophically. Another concern that this issue brought up was the massive effort to be humorous. There were a few times where I laughed out loud but overall the comedic effort felt forced and hollow. This might seem to be a good time to bring in laughter after the extremely heavy subject matter that the last arc dealt with but definitely not to this degree.

Overall, the writing by Abnett and Lanning was fairly good but not without problems while the art remained captivating and interesting, even though Misty Knight looked like a character from “Chew”. I would recommend this, if only to see where the story goes from here.